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Jun22This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life by Stefanie Green, MD (2022)
|¦ set in Victoria BC, medical assistance in dying (MAiD), I'm not sure. ¦|
Apr22The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
|¦ "We can't imagine the suffering of people of the future, so not much gets done on their behalf
Narcissism." ¦|
Mar22Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr (2021)
|¦ "Fight or Flight?
Flight is not an option; we cannot outrun global warming.
We're going to have to fight this one out, with every weapon we can muster"
-- contrary to "fairy tales of eternal economic growth" [Greta Thunberg]. ¦|
Feb22What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (2021)
|¦ "And yet there's an emptiness, something missing." ¦|
Feb22The Nature of Canada by Colin M. Coates & Graeme Wynn (2019)
|¦ "Diseases remind us that national boundaries are often of little significance for environmental forces" {'Nature We Cannot See' (2019)}
"Ecological sense does not come easily to moderns and postmoderns" {quote by forest scientist Stan Rowe in 'Advocates and Activists'} ¦|
Nov21Renegades: Born in the USA by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen (2021)
|¦ Conversation #6: 'Wrestling with Ghosts' ¦|
Nov21Forever Young: A Memoir by Hayley Mills (2021)
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Nov21Indian School Days by Basil H. Johnston (1988)
|¦ 'Johnston has created a story that radiates compassion, humor, and hope.' ¦|
Aug21Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing - Part I: Foundations by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (2003)
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Apr21How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates (2021)
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Apr21The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann (2021)
|¦ "the climate crisis" ¦|
Mar21Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson by Annye C Anderson and Preston Lauterbach (2020)
|¦ The life and afterlife of bluesman Robert Johnson (1911-1938) as told by his nonagenarian stepsister. ¦|
Mar21A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)
|¦ A mighty fine book. ¦|
Feb21Becoming {Audiobook} by Michelle Obama (2018)
|¦ Michelle Obama's autobiography - read by her
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Jan21To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger (2019)
|¦ biodiversity, mother trees, ... ¦|
Dec20The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson (2020)
|¦ "On Winston Churchill's first day as the UK Prime Minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium." ¦|
Oct20Calico Joe by John Grisham (2012)
|¦ A novel ¦|
Jul20The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change by Gleb Raygorodetsky (2017)
|¦ "What makes Indigenous communities uniquely valuable in the global quest for climate change solutions is that they are where the traditional practices & understanding of nature meet modern technology & scientific insights." ¦|
Apr20This Is All a Dream We Dreamed by Blair Jackson & David Gans (2015)
|¦ An oral history of the Grateful Dead ¦|
Feb20Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna (2019)
|¦ An intense graphic novel about a family living in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Reign [1975-1979] ¦|
Nov19Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (2014)
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Sep19Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances) by Denise Donlon (2016)
|¦ Denise Donlon is a Canadian business executive, television producer, author, public speaker, host, and member of the Order of Canada. ¦|
Jun19The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (1905)
|¦ A historical discussion, written in 1905, of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern Capitalism ¦|
May19Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011)
|¦ Steve Jobs (Feb. 24 1955-Oct. 5 2011) ¦|
Feb19City in colour: rediscovered stories of Victoria's multicultural past by May Q. Wong (2018)
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Oct18Herbie Hancock: Possibilities by Herbie Hancock and Lisa Dickey (2014)
|¦ "I'd finally figured out how to turn my obstacle into an opportunity,
which opened up a whole new world of possibility." ¦|
Oct18Been So Long: My Life and Music by Jorma Kaukonen (2018)
|¦ "Finns are a stoic lot." ¦|
Sep18Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian (2018)
|¦ "What will the Earth look like in two thousand years?" "Will human beings achieve a sustainable relationship with the biosphere?" ¦|
Aug18Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times by John Perry Barlow (2018)
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Jul18Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn (2018)
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Jul18The Life of Yogananda by Philip Goldberg (2018)
|¦ Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) ¦|
Jul18Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Michael Nesmith (2017)
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Jul18The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A' Kempis (1427)
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Jun18Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh (2018)
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May18From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino (2018)
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May18The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer (2007)
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May18All the Money in the World by John Pearson (2017)
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Apr18The Confessions of Saint Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo (400)
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Mar18A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre (2017)
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Feb18Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth (2017)
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Jan18Spy of the First Person by Sam Shepard (2017)
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Jan18What Is It All but Luminous by Art Garfunkel (2017)
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Jan18Seduced by Mrs. Robinson by Beverly Gray (2017)
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Jan18Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes (2015)
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Dec17Tales from the Tao: The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters by Solala Towler (2017)
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Dec17Understanding the Messages of Your Body by Jean-Pierre Barral (2007)
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Dec17The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel (2017)
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Oct17Lightfoot by Nicholas Jennings (2017)
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Oct17Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers by Tom Petty (2007)
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Oct17The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wholleben (2015)
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Sep17Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
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Aug17Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-Sik Hong (2017)
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Aug17Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life by Scott M Marshall (2017)
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May17The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scolls of Taoist Christianity by Martin Palmer (2001)
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Apr17William Lyon Mackenzie King: A life guided by the hand of destiny by Allan Levine (2011)
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Mar17Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality by Cathy O'Neil (2016)
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Feb17George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson (2015)
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